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ICGP alcohol project ends due to lack of funding

The former director of the ICGP’s “Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems” project, which ended last month, has criticised the “powers that be” for only paying “lip service” to alcohol-related issues.

Mr Rolande Anderson, a Dublin-based alcohol and addiction counsellor, told IMN that it is a “huge disappointment” that the project, in existence for the last 11 years, officially ceased last month after its funding was cut two years ago.

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Source: Niamh Cahil, Irish Medical News, 05/05/2011

Posted by Andy on 05/06 at 06:47 AM in
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